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Coping with School Bullying DVD:

The scenarios and videos are the result of workshops
conducted with year 8 and 9 students at Unley High School. Through a
process of brainstorming, scripting and filming the videos reflect the way
in which students see and experience bullying. Bullying is recognised
worldwide as a problem for schools and the entire community. In Australia
the National Safe Schools Framework requires that all schools provide a
safe and supportive learning environment for all members of the school
community. This DVD and itís accompanying booklet goes to the heart of
bullying issues in schools. The intended audience includes educators,
young people, parents, community representatives and other stakeholders
concerned with addressing bullying. The DVD is designed for viewing in
upper primary and secondary school classrooms, staffrooms and school
communities, with the aim of prompting discussion and promoting change.

The videos deal with four types of bullying:

Exclusion

Verbal

Physical

Cyber

Want to know more?

For more information about the Coping with School
Bullying DVD and how it can
support your school to copy with bullying, download a the DVD booklet in
PDF version (requires Acrobat Reader), or watch this 86 seconds Quicktime
DVD trailer.

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first time, as it takes a moment to load.

Acknowledgements

This educational resource on DVD was produced as part of
a Flinders University Research Grant (FRG) involving Flinders University
& Unley High School. It is part of a package of resources used in
South Australia to address the issue of school bullying. Being evidence
based makes it unique amongst audiovisual resource materials on
antibullying interventions. Research by Professors Phillip Slee &
Rosalind Murray-Harvey, from the School of Education at Flinders
University, used questionnaires and focus groups to collect data from over
700 students at Unley High School over the period of a year. Interviews
were also conducted with key school and health personnel. Students worked
with the director, Ms Alison Wotherspoon from Screen Studies at Flinders
University, to workshop, script, and perform the scenarios on the DVD.

Stressed Out & Growing Up:

This innovatively presented and useful resource package
includes a video and 20 discussion sheets that explore issues related to
child and adolescent stress.

Over 100 activities, discussion points, ideas and games
are provided to stimulate discussion about children's stress; how to
identify it and how to help children and adolescents deal with stress in
today's world.

People and organisations who will value using Stressed
Out & Growing Up

The video discussion package is based on the latest
Australian and International research and has been developed in
consultation with parents and teachers. Stressed Out & Growing UP is
an ideal resource for kindergartens, childcare centres, community centres,
schools, health centres, parent groups and university courses in
education, health, social work and psychology.

What you will find in the Stressed Out & Growing Up
package . . .

Invaluable resource package delightfully offered in a
colourful presentation box which will easily fit on your library shelf.
Inside you will find a brilliantly produced, thought-provoking video which
runs for about 8.5 minutes and which will provide hours of discussion. The
20 discussion sheets are easily photocopied and present over 100
activities, discussion point and ideas for group or class discussion and
activities. There is research of interest to discuss and comment upon.
Further readings are provided to follow up and practical ideas are
presented on how to manage stress.

Stressed Out and Coping in Families

This multi-media package is the second in the "stressed out" series
and explores issues related to stress and coping.

The entertaining video is designed to promote discussion about family
life.

The 20 resource and activity cards draw on the video content providing
over 100 ideas for helping families identify and manage stress.

The video and resource/activity cards are ideally used together. The package
addresses the issue of stress in families.

Stressed Out and Coping in Families considers stress in relation to the types
of stress facing the growing child, individual differences in responding to
stress and includes ideas for coping with stress in families, activities,
discussion points, and a snakes and ladders stress game.

The P.E.A.C.E. Pack

Slee, P.T. (2001) A Program for Reducing Bullying In Our Schools (3rd
Edition)

Reducing Bullying: Evidence Based Strategies for Schools

Reducing Bullying: Evidence Based Strategies for
Schools features seven short videos, capturing the voices of
students, teachers, parents, experts and health professionals and
providing anti-bullying information and strategies. Academics used
questionnaires and focus groups to collect data from more than 1,400
secondary school students at five schools over a year and guide the
contents of the DVD. It will complement a number of other State Government
initiatives to tackle bullying in schools Australia-wide.

Very Mixed Emotions: A Discussion Starter on Bullying in Childhood

Bullying in schools continues to be an area of
considerable concern to the community, as it impacts on the physical and
psychological health, educational attainment and social development of
students. This video complements a series of publications commissioned by
National Community Crime Prevention, written by Ken Rigby.